Margery A. Beck

  • FILE – A car enters the drive at Day Kimball Hospital, July 18, 2022 in Putnam, Conn. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)Health

    Rural hospitals brace for $1 trillion Medicaid cut in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: ‘If we do see a cut of that, it’ll be difficult to keep the doors open’

    By Margery A. Beck, Susan Haigh, and others
  • Police arrest dozens of protesters during an anti-ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) protestFinance

    Omaha food plant owner who lost half his workforce in ICE raids says he followed rules for hiring immigrants

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • Richard Eiker speaks in support of a strike by fast food workers advocating for a $15 an hour minimum wage outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., May 19, 2021. (Aditi Ramaswami/Missouri Workers Center via AP)Politics

    A 40-year veteran of McDonald’s who worked through a painful kidney stone reacts to lawmakers trying to repeal paid sick leave

    By David A. Lieb, Margery A. Beck, and others
  • Kelvin Hernandez during the first round of the Puerto Rico Open 2025 at Grand Reserve Golf Club on March 06, 2025 in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.Lifestyle

    A golf course manager says his business could lose $500,000 a year if daylight saving time goes away

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • Nebraska Gov. Jim PillenPolitics

    Nebraska’s governor is pushing to ban lab-grown meat—but ranchers and farm groups are pushing back

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen holds a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)Politics

    People with felony records can now vote in Nebraska—and that could make a big difference in November

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • Onlookers take in the catastrophic damage to the Rapidan Dam site in Rapidan, Minn., Monday, June 24, 2024. Debris blocked the dam forcing the heavily backed up waters of the Blue Earth River to reroute along the bank nearest the Dam Store. (Casey Ek/The Free Press via AP)Environment

    Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail add insult to injury in the Midwest: ‘Nature doesn’t care whether you believe in climate change or not’

    By Hannah Fingerhut, Dave Collins, and others
  • Flooding from the Big Sioux River damage buildings in North Sioux City, S.D., on Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Josh Jurgens)Environment

    Midwest flooding kills 2 as surging river forces evacuations and rescues: ‘7,000 square feet of very pretty, pretty things. And it’s all gone’

    By Margery A. Beck, Hannah Fingerhut, and others
  • Campus protestsPolitics

    Hundreds of college students arrested nationwide as Gaza protests escalate into social justice crisis

    By Christopher Weber, Carolyn Thompson, and others
  • Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen speaks during a statue dedication ceremony for US writer and novelist Willa Cather, in Statuary Hall of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Nebraska governor again rejects giving kids from low-income families $40 per month for food: ‘I don’t believe in welfare’

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • North America, USA, South Dakota, Badlands National Park Roadway at Bigfoot Pass. (Photo by: Bernard Friel/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Politics

    South Dakota denied a ‘REZWEED’ vanity license plate, calling it bad taste. The state just admitted that was unconstitutional

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Paul Schulte, a sponsor of the Support Our Schools Nebraska petition drive, delivers a box of signatures to the Nebraska Secretary of State, Aug. 30, 2023, in Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska’s top election official confirmed Tuesday, Oct. 10, that state voters will decide next year whether public money can go to private school tuition. (Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)Success

    Nebraskans will vote to decide whether public money can go to private school tuition

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • Crime and justice concepts - handcuffs, badge, bullets, and caution tapePolitics

    Police raid on local newspaper’s office and publisher’s home sparks outrage: ‘This is the type of stuff that Vladimir Putin does’

    By John Hanna, Margery A. Beck, and others
  • Cathy Zubiate, from Long Beach, Calif., and Gilbert Estrella, from Whitter, Calif., take a selfie after purchasing about $400.00 worth of lottery tickets for the Powerball lottery at the Blue Bird Liquor store in Hawthorne, Calif., Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The jackpot for Monday night’s drawing soared after no one matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. It’s the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Lifestyle

    Powerball jackpot jumps to $1.2 billion, fourth biggest in U.S. history, after no one wins on Halloween

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press
  • BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA – MARCH 26: Jackson Mauvais (R) sells a Powerball ticket to Ken Meese at the Shell Gateway store on March 26, 2019 in Boynton Beach, Florida. Wednesday’s Powerball drawing will be an approximately $750 million jackpot which would be one of the biggest in US lottery prize history. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Powerball players line up across the country for a chance to win a $1 billion jackpot, the fifth biggest in U.S. history

    By Margery A. Beck and The Associated Press